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Re: Rotating a Colour-Filled Square

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From Richard Ashbery <basura@invalid.addr.uk>
Newsgroups comp.sys.acorn.programmer
Subject Re: Rotating a Colour-Filled Square
Date Sun, 17 Nov 2019 15:34:33 +0000 (GMT)
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In article <mpro.q14ak103csv5801ho.news@stevefryatt.org.uk>, Steve
Fryatt <news@stevefryatt.org.uk> wrote:
> On 17 Nov, Richard Ashbery wrote in message
>     <58145cb23cbasura@invalid.addr.uk>:

> > 4 lines of code should do it...
> > 
> > FOR rotate = 0 TO PI STEP PI/4 GCOL RND(10) RECTANGLE FILL
> > 0,0,600,400,rotate NEXT rotate
> > 
> > OK it can't be done but could it be implemented in some form?

> Um, why not

> FOR rotate = 0 TO PI STEP PI/4 GCOL RND(10)
>   PROCrectangle(0,0,600,400,rotate) NEXT rotate

> from my previous post?

> > Only by substituting ELLIPSE for RECTANGLE will it work.

> Or by writing a procedure to do it quickly whenever you need it.

> That's the fundamental point of programming: break down what you
> need to do into chunks, and write re-usable code to do those
> things. Spend half an hour perfecting PROCrectangle() once, and you
> never need to do it again.

Hard to argue with you on this Steve but these days my memory lets me
down. My way: I don't have to remember where I've stashed 6 months
down the line. All right I do have to remember the very simple ELLIPSE
FILL construct and then substitute RECTANGLE but then I'm away.

Richard

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Rotating a Colour-Filled Square Richard Ashbery <basura@invalid.addr.uk> - 2019-11-12 14:05 +0000
  Re: Rotating a Colour-Filled Square Sebastian Barthel <naitsabes@freenet.de> - 2019-11-12 23:04 +0000
    Re: Rotating a Colour-Filled Square Richard Ashbery <basura@invalid.addr.uk> - 2019-11-14 16:24 +0000
      Re: Rotating a Colour-Filled Square Sebastian Barthel <naitsabes@freenet.de> - 2019-11-14 19:29 +0000
        Re: Rotating a Colour-Filled Square Sebastian Barthel <naitsabes@freenet.de> - 2019-11-15 21:26 +0000
        Re: Rotating a Colour-Filled Square Sebastian Barthel <naitsabes@freenet.de> - 2019-11-15 22:23 +0000
          Re: Rotating a Colour-Filled Square Sebastian Barthel <naitsabes@freenet.de> - 2019-11-15 22:31 +0000
            Re: Rotating a Colour-Filled Square Richard Ashbery <basura@invalid.addr.uk> - 2019-11-16 14:05 +0000
              Re: Rotating a Colour-Filled Square Sebastian Barthel <naitsabes@freenet.de> - 2019-11-16 19:47 +0000
                Re: Rotating a Colour-Filled Square druck <news@druck.org.uk> - 2019-11-18 20:02 +0000
          Re: Rotating a Colour-Filled Square Steve Fryatt <news@stevefryatt.org.uk> - 2019-11-16 00:39 +0000
            Re: Rotating a Colour-Filled Square Richard Ashbery <basura@invalid.addr.uk> - 2019-11-16 12:21 +0000
              Re: Rotating a Colour-Filled Square Steve Fryatt <news@stevefryatt.org.uk> - 2019-11-17 10:04 +0000
                Re: Rotating a Colour-Filled Square Richard Ashbery <basura@invalid.addr.uk> - 2019-11-17 13:50 +0000
                Re: Rotating a Colour-Filled Square Richard Ashbery <basura@invalid.addr.uk> - 2019-11-17 14:19 +0000
                Re: Rotating a Colour-Filled Square Steve Fryatt <news@stevefryatt.org.uk> - 2019-11-17 14:21 +0000
                Re: Rotating a Colour-Filled Square Richard Ashbery <basura@invalid.addr.uk> - 2019-11-17 15:34 +0000
                Re: Rotating a Colour-Filled Square Steve Fryatt <news@stevefryatt.org.uk> - 2019-11-17 16:25 +0000
                Re: Rotating a Colour-Filled Square Richard Ashbery <basura@invalid.addr.uk> - 2019-11-18 16:17 +0000
                Re: Rotating a Colour-Filled Square Richard Ashbery <basura@invalid.addr.uk> - 2019-11-18 16:55 +0000
          Re: Rotating a Colour-Filled Square druck <news@druck.org.uk> - 2019-11-16 11:48 +0000
            Re: Rotating a Colour-Filled Square Richard Ashbery <basura@invalid.addr.uk> - 2019-11-16 14:21 +0000
              Re: Rotating a Colour-Filled Square druck <news@druck.org.uk> - 2019-11-18 20:04 +0000
                Re: Rotating a Colour-Filled Square Richard Ashbery <basura@invalid.addr.uk> - 2019-11-19 14:48 +0000
                Re: Rotating a Colour-Filled Square druck <news@druck.org.uk> - 2019-11-19 20:26 +0000
                Re: Rotating a Colour-Filled Square Brian Jordan <brian.jordan9@btinternet.com> - 2019-11-19 20:39 +0000
                Re: Rotating a Colour-Filled Square Dave <dave@triffid.co.uk> - 2019-11-20 07:50 +0000
                Re: Rotating a Colour-Filled Square Alan Adams <alan@adamshome.org.uk> - 2019-11-20 11:26 +0000
            Re: Rotating a Colour-Filled Square Sebastian Barthel <naitsabes@freenet.de> - 2019-11-16 19:27 +0000
              Re: Rotating a Colour-Filled Square Steve Fryatt <news@stevefryatt.org.uk> - 2019-11-16 23:37 +0000
      Re: Rotating a Colour-Filled Square druck <news@druck.org.uk> - 2019-11-14 20:47 +0000
    Re: Rotating a Colour-Filled Square druck <news@druck.org.uk> - 2019-11-14 20:44 +0000
      Re: Rotating a Colour-Filled Square Richard Ashbery <basura@invalid.addr.uk> - 2019-11-15 13:35 +0000
        Re: Rotating a Colour-Filled Square Steve Fryatt <news@stevefryatt.org.uk> - 2019-11-16 00:32 +0000
    Re: Rotating a Colour-Filled Square Richard Ashbery <basura@invalid.addr.uk> - 2019-11-13 12:54 +0000
      Re: Rotating a Colour-Filled Square Richard Ashbery <basura@invalid.addr.uk> - 2019-11-13 17:05 +0000
        Re: Rotating a Colour-Filled Square Sebastian Barthel <naitsabes@freenet.de> - 2019-11-13 23:35 +0000
          Re: Rotating a Colour-Filled Square Sebastian Barthel <naitsabes@freenet.de> - 2019-11-14 12:20 +0000
          Re: Rotating a Colour-Filled Square Richard Ashbery <basura@invalid.addr.uk> - 2019-11-14 14:09 +0000
  Re: Rotating a Colour-Filled Square Richard Ashbery <basura@invalid.addr.uk> - 2019-11-14 15:21 +0000
  Re: Rotating a Colour-Filled Square news@sprow.co.uk - 2019-11-14 05:00 -0800

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